Comments on: Floral Memories That Flower Emotions The highs and lows of running ArenaFlowers.com, warts and all. And other stuff. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:13:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Will – Priority juggler http://www.arenaflowers.com/blog/2008/05/23/floral-memories-and-flower-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-4240 Will – Priority juggler Sun, 25 May 2008 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.arenaflowers.com/blog/?p=285#comment-4240 When I was 16 years old, I went to climb the Ruwenzori mountains, in the East of the Congo. They're also known as "The Mountains of the Moon", due to their extraordinary plant life. The fairly unique combination of equatorial sun and high altitude mean plants, such as giant groundsel, grow to titanic sizes and are draped in moss, making it feel like you've stepped onto another planet. The weird thing is, the change from tropical African jungle to otherworldly environment happens over the space of only a hundred yards or so. See a shot of it here (though it doesn't really do it justice): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ruwenpflanzen.jpg A truly amazing experience. When I was 16 years old, I went to climb the Ruwenzori mountains, in the East of the Congo. They’re also known as “The Mountains of the Moon”, due to their extraordinary plant life. The fairly unique combination of equatorial sun and high altitude mean plants, such as giant groundsel, grow to titanic sizes and are draped in moss, making it feel like you’ve stepped onto another planet. The weird thing is, the change from tropical African jungle to otherworldly environment happens over the space of only a hundred yards or so.

See a shot of it here (though it doesn’t really do it justice): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ruwenpflanzen.jpg

A truly amazing experience.

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